Sentences with phrase «with earworms»

Not exact matches

«Despacito,» the inescapable earworm from Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee with an assist from Justin Bieber on the remix, has been at the top of Billboard charts for 16 weeks, which somehow feels like 16 years.

However, one may not know that organic sweet corn, because it is not treated with harsh chemical insectisides, may contain corn earworms!

The New York League of Conservation Voters is out with a new radio ad slamming its No. 1 Democratic primary target that features a catchy Calypso tune with definite earworm potential and the refrain: «Anyone is better than Bill Stachowski.»

Yet, fruit flies rarely interact with the fungus in the wild — pests like the corn earworm caterpillar are much bigger threats — so it's unclear how applicable these results are to the real world, says Marko Rohlfs, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of Bremen in Germany who was not involved in the study.

Jakubowski contributed to a May 2015 study led by Nicolas Farrugia, a postdoctoral researcher with the Earworm Project, that demonstrated auditory and inhibitory - related areas play a role in earworms as well.

Some commercial varieties of corn have been engineered with genes for a toxin borrowed from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis, known as Bt, that kills the earworms when they eat the crop.

These songs, often called earworms, are usually faster, with a fairly generic and easy - to - remember melody but with some particular intervals, such as leaps or repetitions that set them apart from the average pop song, according to the first large - scale study of earworms.

Those with a warped sense of humor, or a keen ear for stellar 80s pop music, have probably got a Carly Simon - shaped earworm burrowing deep into your aural passageways right about now.

«A MILLION DREAMS» — Just as much of an earworm and right in line with the Broadway feel of all the others.

Francis Lawrence shoots everything with that backdrop visible; skulls and skeletons of obliterated civilians creep into the edge of the frame, while a beautiful off - the - cuff rendition of The Hanging Tree (by Katniss, with a hint of Lawrence's Winters Bone) is swiftly packaged up by the propaganda machine and turned into an earworm calling people to action.

For the second year in a row, we have a rousing earworm from a Disney film — last year Moana's «How Far I'll Go,» this year Coco's «Remember Me» — up against the wunderkind duo of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, who won last year for La La Land's «City of Stars,» went on to win two Tonys and a Grammy for Dear Evan Hansen, and are now back with «This Is Me» from The Greatest Showman.

There are some heavy hitters in the competition this year, many of them, as usual, coming from Disney and Pixar — Tim Rice and Alan Menken, the team behind «Evermore,» also brought us «A Whole New World,» and the Coco team of Kristen Anderson - Lopez and Robert Lopez wrote the earworm of the century with «Let It Go.»

Throw in a soundtrack of solid gold earworms and hundreds of hours of hypnotic side quests, and by the time you're done with this, your body will have sprouted a few grassy fields of its own.

The soundtrack is replete with exhilarating battle themes, but I purchased my copy in the hopes that I could finally purge my brain of the earworm that is the

Increased weed and pest pressure associated with longer growing seasons and warmer winters will be an increasingly important challenge; there are already examples of earlier arrival and increased populations of some insect pests such as corn earworm.64 Furthermore, many of the most aggressive weeds, such as kudzu, benefit more than crop plants from higher atmospheric carbon dioxide, and become more resistant to herbicide control.72 Many weeds respond better than most cash crops to increasing carbon dioxide concentrations, particularly «invasive» weeds with the so - called C3 photosynthetic pathway, and with rapid and expansive growth patterns, including large allocations of below - ground biomass, such as roots.73 Research also suggests that glyphosate (for example, Roundup), the most widely - used herbicide in the United States, loses its efficacy on weeds grown at the increased carbon dioxide levels likely to occur in the coming decades.74 To date, all weed / crop competition studies where the photosynthetic pathway is the same for both species favor weed growth over crop growth as carbon dioxide is increased.72